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Josh Cooley announced as co-director of Toy Story 4 with John Lasseter

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Disney-Pixar has today announced via Twitter the news that Josh Cooley will co-direct the hugely anticipated Toy Story 4 alongside original director and Pixar head honcho John Lasseter.Cooley began his career as a Pixar intern working in the story department on Cars, and is head of story on Pixar’s latest film, Inside Out, which debuts […]

Miles Teller and Ruben Fleischer to team for The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang

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Variety has revealed that Miles Teller (Insurgent, Fantastic Four) is set to star in The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang for director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad). Universal Pictures is in the final stages of negotiating a deal to secure the rights to a Stopwatch Gang article published by Atavist and written by […]

Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti set to play tennis stars Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs for HBO Films

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Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect) and Paul Giamatti (Sideways) are set to star in a new project for HBO and Playtone about the Battle of the Sexes tennis match of 1973 which saw Billie Jean King beat former Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs.Deadline reports that writer David Auburn (Proof) is set to pen the film, with Playtone […]

TRON 3 set to shoot in Vancouver this winter, Joseph Kosinski and Garrett Hedlund to return

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After TRON Legacy, the long-awaited sequel to the 1982 classic TRON, debuted during the Christmas season in 2010, rumours have circulated that a third (and perhaps final) film would make its way to the big screen, with Legacy director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) continuously attached to the threequel without any concreate news or official confirmation from […]

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson continue Zoolander 2 Paris shenanigans, pose with Cara Delevingne

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Yesterday we brought you news of the official announcement from Paris Fashion Week that comedy sequel Zoolander 2 had started production, with stars Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller taking to the catwalk to surprise unsuspecting fashion fans.Now Digital Spy has uploaded some photos of Wilson and Stiller as Hansel and Derek Zoolander making mischief in […]

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan want pay increase for Fifty Shades sequels

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After conquering the world this year with a whopping $550 million worldwide to date, it is no surprise that Universal Pictures and Focus Features are fast-tracking plans to bring the Fifty Shades of Grey sequels to the screen. But while fans can’t wait to see the return of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, the films […]

Ben Foster joins the cast of Ron Howard’s Inferno

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Ben Foster (3.10 To Yuma, X-Men: The Last Stand) is set to join the stellar line-up for Inferno, the third adaptation of writer Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series, reports The Hollywood Reporter.Ron Howard is once again directing the film, which sees Oscar Winner Tom Hanks reprise his role as world-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon, with Oscar […]

Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book: Origins officially begins shooting

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In a somewhat similar scenario to what we saw in the late 1990s with Armageddon and Deep Impact, as well as Dante’s Peak and Volcano, we have two different adaptations of Rudyard Kipling’s beloved The Jungle Book on the horizon, with the second of which, directed by Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the […]

Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There English-language voice cast announced

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While many reports have said that Studio Ghibli figurehead Hayao Miyazaki was to “retire” from the studio and focus on other things, some are still hoping that the output from the famous animation house will continue in earnest. For now though, fans haven’t got long to wait for Ghibli’s new film When Marnie Was There, […]